Among the three casualties of Russian attacks in Kyiv, where 18 people were injured and numerous buildings, including government structures, were set ablaze, was an infant.
Similar attacks occurred after a series of drone strikes and missile launches, as reported by Ukrainian officials.
Observers from Reuters saw smoke billowing from the Pecherskyi district’s government building following the incident.
The drone assaults, as per Kyiv’s mayor Vitali Klitschko, claimed the life of an infant and a young woman, while five individuals, among them a pregnant woman, suffered injuries severe enough to warrant hospital admission.
In a preliminary statement, Klitschko had also mentioned that an elderly woman perished in a bomb shelter located in the Darnytskyi district, east of the Dnipro River.
In Sviatoshynskyi’s western district, several floors of a nine-story residential building were seriously damaged, according to Klitschko and emergency officials.
Debris from falling drones ignited fires in a 16-story apartment building and two other structures, the mayor stated.
Apartment buildings, some with collapsed floors and crumbling facades, were engulfed in smoke, as images posted by emergency officials on social media confirmed.
The head of Kyiv’s military administration, Timur Tkachenko, alleged that Russia was “deliberately and consciously” targeting civilian sites.
Dozens of explosions rocked Ukraine’s central city of Kremenchuk, causing power outages in some areas, according to mayor Vitalii Maletskyi on Telegram. Russian strikes in Kryvyi Rih targeted transport and urban infrastructure, reported Oleksandr Vilkul, head of the military administration, without any injuries.
In the southern city of Odesa, strikes led to damages to civilian infrastructure and residential buildings, with fires erupting in several apartment blocks, said regional governor Oleh Kiper on Telegram.
Moscow provided no immediate comment. Despite both sides denying the targeting of civilians, thousands of casualties have been recorded since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.
To counter the threat of air attacks in western Ukraine, Poland activated its own and allied aircraft to secure air safety, as reported by the operational command of the Polish armed forces.
